Tips for College please?

Hello /sci/ I am an aspiring "want to do lots of shit"-fag. I want to study mathematics, physics, astronomy, creative writing, and computer programming. But deciding a major won't be the hard part. The hard part for me is getting into college in the first place.

I have been raised in a shithole town next to the Navajo Reservation and have been led up in my life thinking that I was intelligent and clever. I can write well for the most part, but I no longer believe that. So I don't know if I can rightly get into college, entrance exams or no. I'm a good test taker, but I don't have a lot of common sense.

So for all you guys in college, what information precisely did you need to sign up in all the trips you went to register for classes? Because I cannot drive to my college, I'd have to walk there over the course of half a day. I want to have all my shit together when I go.

I'd also like to know any handy scholarships or loan places that would help pay for college or for housing either on campus or nearby.

Cambridgefag here, that may attest to my knowledge but I'm just 10 points or so above average, top 10% rather than top 1%. I think you might be having the same problems as me.

I don't know much about the american education system, but in Britain it's pretty arbitrary and mystifying. Even when I asked for help no one could provide me with what I needed to know. I remember spending an hour talking with this career help guy person (I really don't remember exactly what he was for) and obtaining no useful information, compared with a 5 minute discussion I had with this old guy at a bus stop whom told me about the metal exchange and what he knew about the business there which pretty much set me on a course to success.

When I was 16 I found it pretty hard just to understand the structure of the subject, I felt as though the teachers were throwing things at me each lesson randomly and I just had to memorise them. I never understood the relevance of the homework they gave to me so I never put much effort into it. Through the year I continued like this and only obtained mediocre exam results, it was only after thinking deeply about the situation over the summer that I reached the conclusion that I need to go and grab the information I need instead of just going along with the retarded teacher's wishy washy "lesson plans". Next year I did the following with each subject.

1: Obtained the syllabus for the year.
2: Find out what I will be doing next lesson and review it beforehand .
3: Even if I understand what is being taught and am bored, I used the opportunity to reinforce my knowledge and look like a smart ass instead of being bored.
3: Questionned the teacher after each lesson, this became a habit until each teacher waited for my interrogation before leaving. I looked like a faggot, but yeah..
4: I maticulously compiled a sort of tree diagram of the entire subject and wrote the raw facts down on sheets of paper representing points on the tree diagram.
5: I developed a positive mental attitude to homework, this sounds like mystical bullshit but do what you feel like after sitting yourself down in front of a piece of paper eventually it comes naturally. Essays were the worst, but after a month or 2 my positive mental attitude kicked in and I almost looked forward to putting my thoughts down on paper.
6: Lastly I mixed all these changes in with the belief that I'm doing something totally awesome, thus I am awesome and can walk around all day like I am superior providing motivation to live up to my "superior" status. Not psychologically healthy, but as long as you know what your flaws are you should be able to keep it under wraps.